IBIS - my first impressions

[Riccardo]

Originally Posted by ISedlacek

Well ... yes ... exactly

Do you also feel it slightly widens the depth and stereo image ?

Anyone can share some experience and tips for using the "colour" function ? Where do you feel it works the best ? If put on maximum, some audible distortion comes. Around 2-3 steps, it sounds very nice ... So far tried only full mode ... Using it just on a selected band is an interesting option, but have not tried so far ...

I only use it sparingly once in maybe 20/30 sessions. It is very audible past 1.5/2.
I mostly use it on the 3rd or 4th band (high mids/highs) as the stereo image "perception" increases.

[DaveH]

My 2 cents.

First, I was put off by the strange note thing.
I almost did not buy the unit.

I do read music, but didn’t really want it on my EQ.

But this unit did help me realize how much I really just listen
and don’t look.

(I’m not a big DAW fan either, preferring “old school”). If I could learn to look less
at the screen maybe I could be won over.

P.S. Yep, Can’t think of a reason I would ever sell my IBIS.

[doug_hti]

Originally Posted by doogie

look I hope this doesn't sound flippant or disrespectful but this is an awesome sounding eq and THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT issue ...... engineers who have the means and the ambition to buy an Ibis should have a little knowledge of music ... scales and fundementals, 1st 3rds and 5ths and so on of the music they are working on for *****! sake .....DON'T GET ME STARTED .... THANKS DAVE FOR THIS WONDERFUL EQ IT HAS CHANGED THE SOUND OF THE MUSIC I AM WORKING ON IN A WONDERFUL WAY !!


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so video/film post engineers working on shows with dialogue should have to have the same memorized knowledge? and those working on Radio VO's?....
or is the IBIS not for those people?

[jayfrigo]

Originally Posted by Lynn Fuston

I only listened to it at trade shows, but I could tell the COLOR knob was the thing that set it apart. I haven't heard anything like that in any other equalizer.

Sort of like the PENTODE and TAPE controls on the HEDD. Take those off the HEDD and it's just another great sounding ADC. But with them on there, there's nothing else that does what it does.

I used it on a couple sessions. I definitely liked the idea of the individual color controls, but didn't find them as useful as the HEDD color somehow. I bet I'd find more use for it if it was hanging around for a while.

[Brad Blackwood]

Originally Posted by jayfrigo

I bet I'd find more use for it if it was hanging around for a while.

Sure - it takes awhile for just about any box to grow on me and Ibis was no exception. I can't imagine mastering without it now...

[Reptil]

aawh this thread is terrible! and all of you are terrible! now you make me go and look at my bankaccount.

must...be...strong...not...give...in...difficult...diff...d...


hope you enjoy the greenknobmonster!

[ISedlacek]

Well, I found that to those few things I was playing now with, 1-2 degree full band colour did always good ... Adding a kind of VERY subtle "celestial" spark around the sound ...